Dated Houston 14 1877

Received at Austin July 14

To Gov R.B. Hubbard

The following letter received

by a merchant here is

the cause of apprehended necessity

of the military: Dear Friend

we are having a sweet

and lovely time down at

this place just at the

present sometime ago there

was a negro killed out

on the prairie for stealing

a beef since then the

negroes have been holding

meetings & last night openly

declared they were going to

take all the beef they

wanted in the future but they